Hillsboro recorder., 1887-12-15
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The President granted pardons in the
following cases: Joseph T.. Brown,
convicted in Arkansas Of presenting
false accounts, and sentenced TO five
years. imprisonment; r. L. ID. Evans,
convicted IN Tennessee Of passing eoun-
terfeit money, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment, aud Hcnsley Tho
mas, convicted in Indiana Of retailing
liquor without a license, ma.a.. ...~,s i
a. AGAINST THE POLICY.
The conference or wool growers and
dealers, called by the President of the
National Association Of Wool Growers,
now in session, adopted the following:
"Thc Presidents policy would bring
about the destruction of this industry,
and the same policy of reduction or abo-
lition of the tariff would end in disaster
to all other productive enterprises of the
country"
-ss NATIONAL BANK SYSTEM. :.
The principal feature of bill for the
perpetuation of the national banking
system, which will be introduced by
Senator Farwell when the Senate commit
in Ctslh fnr ion
for United States bonds, as security for
circulation, of state or municipal bonds
or any first mortgage road bonds of the
United States upon which interest has
been heretofore promptly paid, and whose
market cash value is equal to or greater
than the par value, bearing interest at the
rate Of not less than per centum per
annum, and all of the provisions of the
national banking laws shall be applicable,
so far as may be, to the bonds herein
provided for, in the same manner as
touching states treasurer bonds.
CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE.
The General Christian Conference, un-
der the auspices and direction of the
Evangelical alliance for the United
States, OF which William E. Dodge, of
New York, is president, and Rev. DR..
Josiah Strong, of New York, is general
secretary, opened in the Congregational
Church, at the corner Of Tenth and g
streets northwest. The Conference met
in response to a call issued by the al
lance several months since. The stated
object Of the Conference is to discuss
measures upon which all these denomiua-
tions may be brought to unite. to meet
certain new and pressing emergencies,
which have arisen in connection with the
great increase of wealth, business, immi-
grafton, changed relations of labor and
capital and the great and growing per-
centage Of attendants.
MUST HAVE GOOD CARS.
In the case of William II. Council, vs..
the Western s. Atlantic railroad COM
paDy, the interstate commission made
the following decision: William II.
Council, colored principal Of the Hunts
willie, Alabama, Industrial school,
bought frst-elass ticket over the West
ern & Atlantic railroad from Chattanooga
to Atlanta, and took seat in the ladies'
car, the only passenger car, except a
half car, indifferently fitted up for col
ored people. Into this Council was di.
rected to 90, but did not 90 until forced
to do so, and was assaulted aLd treated
with some violence, as he claimed, by the
agents Of the railroad, but as the railroad
company claimed, by passengers. The
road answered that il gave defendant
equally good accommodations, and that
1t had right to separate its white and
colored passengers. The opinion is, by
Commissioner Morrison, and the com
mission decides that il will not go into
question Of money damage, because il
cannot give jury trial, which defendant
is entitled TO have under the seventh
amendment of the Constitution. That
the car furnished was only second-class
in comforts for travel and the road must
furnish colored people, who buy first.
class tickets, Accommodations eqEaliy
safe and comfortable with other. first
class passengers.
PRoHTBITIoN SUSTAINED.
Justice Harlan delivered an opinion o.
the Supreme Court in two so.called pro
hibition cases of Peter Mugler, plaintiff
ia error, vs.. the state Of Kansas, vs.. Her
man Ziebold and others, affirming iht
two "Mugler" cases, and reversing thu
Judgment in the Ziebold case. The effec
Of this opinion is to declare valid th,
prohibition laws Of the ssate Of Kansai
and Is. Of course, victory for the pro
hibitionists. The court said the right &
determine what was injurious bad TO ex
ist somewhere, and the right Of doterm
ming what measures are necessary fU
the preservation of the public morals
health and safety had, therefore, beei
vested in the states by the constitutions
right given them under the polio
power TO regulate their own internal con
Germs. While the police power couli
, not be abused and must only be exercise,
. for objects Of real merit, this court woul'
certainly not say that tie liquor traifi
was not one which the state could Law
fully prohibit, because itw well know
that the abuse Of intoxicants was pre-
ductiye Of pauperism and crime. Th
next ground Of contention, the justie
said, was that as the brewetics had bee
erected prior to the passage Of the pr.